It took a while, but we made it through Season 3 of The Angry Video Game Nerd! That only took about 11 months, but it’s done, and quite a ride it was!
This was the point where I’d say the series really began to reach its peak. It was during this time James moved into his current house and things began to become somewhat normalized for the shows production and feel. The wood paneling of the new Nerd Room, the arrangement of consoles and the old TV’s, the walls lined with games (with more shelves soon to replace the posters behind the couch) and the overall style of things introduced in this time period became the Nerd look and feel.
This was also the last period of episodes where I had yet to actually discover the show for myself — while I had seen the Wizard of Oz episode when it was new, I hadn’t watched anything else of the series. That would change in 2009 making Season 3 some of the most “recent” nerd I could watch as Season 4 episodes would be made.
On that subject, Season 3 was pretty hit and miss. While you have amazing episodes like the CD-i trilogy, Bible Games II, Batman, the Double Vision pair, and of course the absolute absurdity of the Super Mario Bros. 3 review, you also have lesser episodes like Moonwalker, NES Accessories, and the absolute stinker that is Deadly Towers.
Still, the sheer volume of higher quality episodes produced in this time period were a preview of what’s to come, as 2009 and Season 4 would prove to be my favorite period in the series.
I say it this way as officially the show was never produced with conventional “seasons” in mind — these were retroactively added in to group batches of episodes, and I think they work pretty well.
But, yeah, back on point, Season 3 was pretty damn nice, but Season 4, oh boy, I’m about to have a ton of fun watching my favorite episodes of the series over again, and I hope to get this season covered in just a few months, as opposed to the nearly year Season 3 took! An aggressive goal, to say the least, but one that, given the time allotted to me, I think I can manage.
With that, I leave you with the links to every Season 3 review and the “full” Season 3 video. Enjoy, as always!
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 42: Virtual Boy – 4.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 43: The Wizard Of Oz – 3.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 44: Double Vision: Part 1 – 5.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 45: Double Vision: Part 2 – 4.5
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 46: The Wizard / Super Mario Bros. 3 – 5.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 47: NES Accessories – 3.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 48: Indiana Jones Trilogy – 4.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 49: Star Trek – 3.5
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 50: Superman – 3.5
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 51: Superman 64 – 3.5
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 52: Batman Part I – 4.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 53: Batman Part II – 4.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 54: Deadly Towers – 2.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 55: Battletoads – 4.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 56: Dick Tracey – 3.5
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 57: Dracula – 3.5
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 58: Frankenstein – 4.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 59: CD-i Part I – Hotel Mario – 3.5
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 60: CD-i Part II – Zelda: Wand of Gamelon – 4.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 61: CD-i Part III – Zelda’s Adventure – 4.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 62: Bible Games II – 4.5
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 63: Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker – 3.0
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 64: Milon’s Secret Castle – 3.5